1.  Pure insight deploys the power of the concept against its special object faith, the form of pure consciousness confronting it in the same element.  ²Pure insight still has its relation to the real world; it is, after all, just like faith, a return out of the real world back into pure consciousness.  ³Now we first have to look at how insight's campaign against the corrupt schemes and distorted views of the world is organized.

2.  We referred to the calm consciousness confronting this vortex of self-dissolution and regeneration above [VI.B.I.b. Faith and pure insight §3.11 ff. M].  That calm consciousness is the side of pure insight and intention here.  ²It has no special insight into the world of education and culture, as we saw.  Instead it was that world which had the most painful feeling and the truest insight into itself – a feeling that all its consolidations have been undermined, every bone in its body broken on the wheel, every moment of its existence shattered.  This insight is also the voice of this feeling and the moving rhetoric uttering judgements on every aspect of its condition.  ³Giving voice to the formal and faithful reception of this its own brilliant insight into the world is more than enough for pure insight, which thus cannot have any activity and content of its own.  ⁴When this language is fragmented and scattered, when judgement is just spur-of-the-moment bluster quickly forgotten and only coming together as a whole for a third consciousness, then this third can only distinguish itself as pure insight by bringing the scattered fragments together in a comprehensive image and making that into the insight of all.

3.  Pure insight will resolve the confusion of this world by this simple means.  ²For it has emerged that the the determinate concepts, the individualities and the masses are not the essence of this actual reality.  Spirited mind, existing as judging and discussing, is the only substance and support for this reality.  Moreover, only the whole and the masses of mindful spirit's articulation sustain the interest in providing a content for this argumentation and chatter.  ³In this language of insight its self-consciousness still sees itself as having being for itself, it is this single individual; but the vanity of the content is also the vanity of the self that knows that content to be vain.  ⁴Calm, receptive consciousness gathers together the most accurate and penetrating accounts of vanity's whole brilliant chatter with the result that the soul supporting the whole, the vanity of brilliant judgement, is destroyed by the remaining vanity of existence.  ⁵The collection shows most a better, at least a more wide-ranging, humour than their own; it also shows that knowledgeable cleverness and judgement are universal and familiar to everyone.  The only remaining interest now collapses and individual flash gives way to universal insight.

4.  Knowledge of essence retains its superiority over vain knowledge and pure insight only really gets active in its own right when it enters the fray against faith.